06 March 2021, Saturday 📖GOSPEL "Your brother here was dead, and he came back to life" A Reading From The Holy Gospel According To Luke (15, 1-3. 11-32)

06 March 2021, Saturday 

📖GOSPEL 

"Your brother here was dead, and he came back to life" 

A Reading From The Holy Gospel According To Luke (15, 1-3. 11-32) 

At that time, tax collectors and sinners all came to Jesus to listen to him. The Pharisees and the scribes complained against him: "This man welcomes sinners, and he eats with them!" "Then Jesus told them this parable:" A man had two sons. The youngest said to his father: “Father, give me my share of the fortune.” And the father divided his possessions to them.

A few days later, the youngest gathered all he had, and left for a distant country where he squandered his fortune by leading a life of disorder. He had spent it all, when a great famine struck this land, and he began to be in need. He went to work with an inhabitant of this country, who sent him to his fields to keep pigs. He would have liked to fill his stomach with the pods the pigs ate, but no one gave him anything. Then he came to himself and said to himself: “How many of my father's workers have bread in abundance, and I, here, am starving! I will rise up and go to my father and say to him, Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son. Treat me like one of your workers. ” He got up and went to his father. As he was still far away, his father saw him and was seized with compassion; he ran and threw himself on his neck and covered it with kisses. The son said to him: “Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son. ” But the father said to his servants: “Quick, bring the finest garment to dress him, put a ring on his finger and sandals on his feet, go and fetch the fattened calf, kill it, let us eat and feast, for my this son was dead, and he came back to life; he was lost, and he is found. ” And they began to feast. bring the finest garment to dress him, put a ring on his finger and sandals on his feet, go get the fattened calf, kill him, let's eat and feast, for my son here was dead, and he came back to life ; he was lost, and he is found. ” And they began to feast. bring the finest garment to dress him, put a ring on his finger and sandals on his feet, go get the fattened calf, kill him, let's eat and feast, for my son here was dead, and he came back to life ; he was lost, and he is found. ” And they began to feast.

Now the eldest son was in the fields. When he returned and was near the house, he heard the music and the dances. Calling one of the servants, he inquired as to what was going on. He replied, “Your brother has come, and your father killed the fattened calf, because he found your brother healthy.” So the older son got angry, and he refused to enter. His father went out to beg him. But he replied to his father: “I have been in your service for so many years without ever having transgressed your orders, and you have never given me a kid to feast with my friends. But, when your son here came back after devouring your property with prostitutes, you had the fattened calf killed for him! ” The father replied: “You, my child, are always with me, and all that is mine is yours. It was necessary to feast and rejoice; for this thy brother was dead, and is come to life again; he was lost, and he is found! ” "

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